I love it when WLOSers try to explain a “trend” to me. Why? Because they make the everyday out to be a “frightening trend.” They take something not new at all and make that the lead story on their news.
Tonight, for sweeps, it was about the Erwin Middle School “trend” of kids going “emo.” Carolyn Ryan said the emo kids wear hair over their face, black T-shirts and they cut themselves. And she had an anonymous 11-year-old who had been wooed to that dark side tell us all about it. Emo is like being goth, only worse, according to Carolyn Ryan. Not sure why, but that’s the way she made it sound.
The Erwin Middle School principal wouldn’t give WLOSers an on-camera interview and told Carolyn the school’s got everything under control.
WLOSers, here’s a question to ponder: couldn’t this all just be kids going through pre-adolescence? Couldn’t it just be kids learning how to deal with peer pressure, learning how to deal with being themselves? Why does it this have to be a bloody story with a graphic over Carolyn of razor blades showering an old-fashioned school desk? Show some restraint. Please.
There was some other news about a murder investigation and downtown business owners complaining about the slow-moving construction of the new Pack Square Park, but I didn’t really pay attention to it.
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One of my favorite t-shirts from recent years: "I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself."
why do you guys watch that crap?
my life is much more better since I turned it off.
did she mention the tight pants? love the tight pants. and the crying. what’s crying without tight pants?
I thought emo had passed its (most recent) peak a year or so ago (and we all know Emo Phillips passed his peak a couple of decades ago).
Welcome to May sweeps, Ash. You also forgot the other key phrase: "the latest ____ sweeping the mountains."